Challenges
Where opportunity connects
with capability in mining innovation.
Open opportunities with Unearthed.
We’re global open-innovation leaders, connecting mining and resources with great talent and capability inside and outside the sector.
Explore Live Challenges
Join and connect with the largest global community of innovators, startups and suppliers shaping a more efficient and sustainable future for the energy and resources sector.
Open Innovation Challenge on Biodiversity
Can you help us preserve and protect local ecosystems, by improving how we prevent & manage invasive flora & fauna?
Scale Solutions
Innovate with South32 and Worsley Alumina to deliver new ideas which safely address scale build-up and maintenance inside an alumina refinery.
Open House Deep Mining
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Can you help us unlock the value of deep critical minerals?
How we do it
Accelerate capability, efficiency and sustainability in the global mining sector.
For innovators worldwide, Unearthed Challenges present significant opportunities to drive the global transition to sustainable resource extraction and create a future of economic opportunity for many.
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Impactful problems to solve
Work with Unearthed to open verified resource sector problems for global innovators & SMEs to solve
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Connect with global capability
Unearthed sources global demonstrated capability that can solve resource challenges
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Open to solutions
The Unearthed approach is open, transparent, and available for worldwide capability to submit
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Support to move forward
With each challenge there is tangible action to move the right solutions forward
Solve global challenges
A truly global talent pool
Innovators, startups and suppliers from across the globe regularly contribute in Unearthed’s open innovation challenges to develop the next-generation of capabilities. And over half of the submissions come from outside the mining sector, opening the talent pool even wider to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Case Study
Dramatically improve exploration
When OZ Minerals went public with the 1 million dollar Explorer challenge the crowdsourced exploration approaches from across the globe and in the end reduced the time to generate quality targets by more than 75%, while increasing confidence.
We needed to find fresh insights and ways of working smarter with our data. The innovators who participated in the Explorer Challenge have provided approaches to mineral exploration that we never would have imagined internally. Reviewing the diverse range of solutions that have come back from this process has been truly remarkable.
Andrew Cole
CEO, OZ Minerals
